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Friday, Jul 22 2016, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. George Clinton told guitarist Eddie Hazel, "Play like your mama just died." The result was this incredibly powerful guitar solo. "Maggot Brain" is reported to have been Hazel's nickname.
DJ Shadow will be here in Seattle, playing the Showbox on Monday, October 3rd, 2016.
Massive Attack will be playing a Yuuge! open-air show at Bristol downs on September 3rd, 2016: www.nme.com
Watch BRMC in an exclusive KEXP in-studio live performance: blog.kexp.org
Melbourne's Flyying Colours (Note the extra "y" and the "u.") is not to be confused with the American band of (almost) the same name: www.facebook.com
"Say hello to noise pop" in this article about Lull, "the band from London": aliceseverin.com "Nouvelle" was released on June 24th, 2016: www.spin.com
Crocodiles' 6th album, "Dreamless,"is scheduled for an October release: www.stereoboard.com
Wild Beasts just said that "we've become the band we objected to being": www.independent.co.uk They will be LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, August 10th at 9:00 a.m.
LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Outkast and others have been turned into lullabies: www.rollingstone.com
Wonder what they're saying? Here are the lyrics to "In The Morning": www.azlyrics.com
Charles Bradley will be performing at Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Thursday, September 15th, 2016.
"World Sick" was a KEXP Song of the Day. You can download it for yourself here: blog.kexp.org
Car Seat Headrest, a project of Seattle musician Will Toledo, will be playing the Main Stage of the Capitol Hill Block Party this Saturday, July 23, 2016, at 6:00 p.m.: capitolhillblockparty.com
Merchandise will be supporting "A Corpse Wired For Sound" with a world tour that includes a visit to Seattle's Barboza on Thursday, December 1st, 2016.
"It is surprisingly difficult to write a comprehensive, yet short, biography on Bauhaus." That's how Houdah Abualtin's comprehensive, but short, biography of Bauhaus begins: indigoeyes.info
Here's a KEXP interview with Andy Gill of Gang of Four: blog.kexp.org
"Wakin' up feelin' good and limber...." Here's the official video for "one Big Hoiday": blog.kexp.org
This song was (Surprise!!) written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and originally recorded by Dusty Springfield and then Dionne Warwick.
Here's the Youtube video of Mazzy Star performing "Fade Into You": www.youtube.com
This is, of course, a Rolling Stones cover. Read a biography of The Sundays and their marvelous singer, Harriet Wheeler: www.allmusic.com
Mitski was recently in Seattle, pllaying at KEXP (Stay tuned for the video.) and then at The Crocodile. Here's a live review of that evening performance: blog.kexp.org
A new David Bowie box set will include a previously unreleased album, "The Gouster": www.rollingstone.com
David Lowery said, "I never thought that Take the Skinheads Bowling would become a Hit. If someone had traveled from the future and told me we would have a hit on our first album I would not have picked this song as being the hit. Not in a million years. I would have more likely picked Where the Hell is Bill." He said that "Skinheads" was specifically structured to be "devoid of meaning.": en.wikipedia.org
Visit the Descendents' official website (Look for that ubiquitous logo.): descendents.tumblr.com
This great album was produced by Steve Albini, whose birthday is this very day: www.stereogum.com
"My Woman," the follow-up to the wonderful 2014 album, "Burn Your Fire For No Witness," is due out on September 2nd, 2016: www.nme.com
This is another album produced by Steve Albini. He talks about his relationship with Kim Deal and The Breeders in this interview: www.youtube.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. Plan to attend KEXP's free Concerts at the Mural at the Seattle Center each Friday in August. Go here for more information: blog.kexp.org
This song is prominently featured in the movie, "High Fidelity." There are 66 musical artists mentioned in the movie,plus some fictitious ones, such as Kathleen Turner Overdrive.: mentalfloss.com
Watch the video for "This Corrosion": www.youtube.com
Watch an entire Big Black concert taped in New York City's CBGB in 1986: www.youtube.com
Tame Impala will be performing at Bumbershoot on Sunday, September 4th, 2016.
Watch live video of Kurt Vile, paying in the KEXP studio in 2015: blog.kexp.org
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Modest Mouse when they play Seattle's Key Arena on Saturday, July 30th, 2016.
Enjoy a KEXP album review of Alt-J's "An Awesome Wave": blog.kexp.org
This was booth guest David's first concert. Read a biography of English avant-garde band Art of Noise: theartofnoiseonline.com
This song gets its title from a sample from "I Know You Got Soul" by Eric B. and Rakim. Find out much, much more about the song, its influence, and its many samples: en.wikipedia.org
After 16 years, The Avalanches have released a new album. It is worth the wait: www.popmatters.com
"This is why events unnerve me..." Here are Ian Curtis' wonderful lyrics: genius.com
Here are 23 of the craziest stories about Shaun Ryder and the rest of Happy Mondays: www.mirror.co.uk
This was the theme song for the Brexit debate. Read about the Spanish lyrics in this song: www.latinorebels.com
After The Clash, Mick Jones began Big Audio Dynamite. Were they "more pioneering that The Clash?": www.theguardian.com
CHVRCHES will be LIVE on KEXP and streaming live at kexp.org on Sunday, July 24th, 2016 at 3:30 p.m... They will play the Main Stage of the Capitol Hill Block Party at 6:45 p.m. that evening.
You can get "Whirring" by KEXP favorites The Joy Formidable for free, since it was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Surfer Rosa is another (!!) album produced by Steve Albini. It was 25 years old in 2013. Here, it's broken down, track-by-track: consequenceofsound.net
Isn't this a marvelous song? Here's the video: www.youtube.com
Watch Arcade Fire cover "California Uber Alles": pitchfork.com
In KEXP's old home, we squeezed the 12 members of Typhoon into the live performance room, check out video of that session here: blog.kexp.org